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	<title>Countries Beginning with I &#187; religion</title>
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		<title>The Humanist Symposium</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2008/01/28/the-humanist-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my regular readers: Not too long ago, I (and thousands of others) stumbled across an article titled Atheists and Anger, an articulate, well-thought-out piece which I highly recommend. It had the welcome side effect of introducing me to the wonderful writing of Greta Christina. (Whose themes range far beyond atheism and are not for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Belief vs. Health Care &#8211;  Tolerating the Intolerable in Italy</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/10/10/religious-belief-vs-health-care-tolerating-the-intolerable-in-italy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Telegraph carries an opinion piece titled If Muslim doctors are intolerant, let them go, according to which a few young Muslim medical trainees have been allowed to refuse to see female bodies or to treat alcohol-related problems, on religious grounds. Sainsbury&#8217;s, a UK grocery chain, allows its checkout staff to refuse to scan alcohol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising a Non-Believer</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/10/03/raising-a-non-believer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader has just written to me: &#8220;One was on an essay about “Religion as a Cause of Strife in the World” &#8211; you can bet she went to town on that!&#8221; this is a comment you wrote on Ross&#8217; India Diary and i have always wanted to ask you why you believe that Ross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramadan</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/09/18/ramadan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura, the American who lives in Paraguay, wakes me up to tell me that it&#8217;s 4: time to eat. For several weeks she has been going with one Alamdar, a very good photographer, Afghan. Ramadan has recently started and Laura, for solidarity with her new love, has decided to keep him company: &#34;I&#8217;m not Muslim, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papa Fan: A Satirist for the Modern Papacy</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/07/10/papa-fan-a-satirist-for-the-modern-papacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/07/10/papa-fan-a-satirist-for-the-modern-papacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a tip from Ross, I have for some time been following a very funny fotolog by Francesco Rabaglia, aka Papa Fan (papa is Italian for pope, differentiated from papà &#8211; dad &#8211; by the stress). It&#8217;s hard to see the humor unless you understand Italian well: basically the writer is putting funny captions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God Delusion</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/03/17/the-god-delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins is laughing up his sleeve. I wasn&#8217;t in any hurry to buy this book. I had already read and admired every other book of Dawkins&#8217;, and had read enough in the press to have a good idea of what this book contained, and to know that I would agree with it, as I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration and Identity in Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/01/28/immigration-and-identity-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2007/01/28/immigration-and-identity-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(originally published in 2002) The assassination of Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician, provides food for thought. Fortuyn was &#8220;a politician who rejected multiculturalism, called for an end to immigration and excoriated Islam as a &#8216;backward culture&#8217; for its intolerance of homosexuals, attitude to women and more&#8221; and &#8220;argue[d] fiercely that immigrants should integrate more wholeheartedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Symbols: Getting Hot and Bothered Over Stupid Things</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/09/16/add-your-thoughts-on-symbols/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/09/16/add-your-thoughts-on-symbols/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rome, October 2003 Israel, and Italy’s Jewish community, were angry when the Israeli flag was burned during April 25th Liberation Day festivities in Milan. The burners were Italian extreme leftists, who tend to be very pro-Palestine and anti-Israel. Coincidentally, about the same time I received from a reader a reference to Michelle Malkin (a conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crimes of Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/02/23/comment-onadd-to-crimes-of-opinion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/02/23/comment-onadd-to-crimes-of-opinion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy&#8217;s Laws on Opinions You&#8217;re Not Free to State Italian law on &#8220;crimes of opinion&#8221; has recently (Jan 25th) been revised as follows (excerpted and translated from here): &#8220;&#8230;Safeguarding of [all] faiths, instead of [just] the state religion [i.e., Catholicism] &#8230;Article 404 &#8211; (Offenses against a religious faith by means of vilipendio [~insult] or damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crusading Atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/02/23/the-crusading-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/02/23/the-crusading-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deirdre Straughan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.&#8221; Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71) Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and many other excellent books, recently did a TV [...]]]></description>
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